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Silvia Tro Santafé - Maffio Orsini
Spanish mezzo-soprano Silvia Tro Santafé has established a major reputation with
audiences and leading opera houses over the world. Her repertoire ranges from
the Baroque to the 21st century, but above all she is recognized as one of
today’s finest exponents of Rossini and the Bel Canto. Over the last seasons her
repertoire has extended to Bellini’s Adalgisa in Norma in Berlin and
Brussels, Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Bayerische Staatsoper
in Munich and Isoletta in La Straniera in Moscow. Her Donizetti
repertoire includes Maffio Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia in Brussels, Munich
and recorded with Edita Gruberova, Sara in Roberto Devereux, Giovanna
Seymour in Anna Bolena and most recently Elisabetta in Maria Stuarda at
the Liceu in Barcelona. Recent concert performances have included Verdi’s Requiem (Hamburg),
Rossini’s Stabat Mater (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic) and a gala concert
in Vienna. Amongst other recent engagements it is worth mentioning Roberto
Devereux (Sara) at the Teatro Real in Madrid and Bilbao; Lucio Silla (concert
version) in Madrid; Maffio Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia at Bayerische
Staatsoper in Munich, Paolo Arrivabeni conducting; Maria Stuarda at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York; Romeo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi in
Barcelona
Plans include Charlotte
in Werther in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Elisabetta in Maria
Stuarda (concert version) in Marseille; Semiramide (Arsace) at Opera
in Florence, Bruno Campanella conducting; Cecilio in Lucio Silla in
Madrid; Lucrezia Borgia at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia;
Verdi’s Requiem in Palma de Mallorca.
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Paolo Arrivabeni - conductor
Music Director at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège.
Regularly invited by the major theaters and opera festivals, Paolo Arrivabeni is
especially in demand for Italian and French opera, but he is also particularly
interested in the major Russian and German repertoire, regularly conducting
works by Mahler, Strauss and Mussorgsky. M° Arrivabeni recent engagements
include: La Favorite and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria (Orchestre
National de France) at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris; Il Trovatore at
the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata;Macbeth and Nabucco at
the Staatsoper and Maria Stuarda and I Capuleti e i Montecchi at
the Deustche Oper in Berlin; Macbeth in Copenaghen; Roberto Devereux at
the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Lucrezia Borgia and Il Turco in Italia at
the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; La Stranieraat the Theater an der
Wien; Don Giovanni in Monte Carlo; La Bohème at the Terme di
Caracalla in Rome; La Forza del Destino in Geneva; I due Foscari with
Leo Nucci in Marseille.
Concerning his past engagements at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège Mr.
Arrivabeni recently led: Fidelio, Tosca, Aida, Cenerentola, Les
Pêcheurs de perles, La Forza del Destino, Ernani, Die Zauberflöte, La
Bohème, Mozart’s Requiem and a Wagner Gala. Mr. Arrivabeni returned
to Dresden where at the Semperopern he conducted La Traviata, Macbeth,
Simon Boccanegra, Tosca and Don Carlo.
Plans include: Nabucco and L'Arlesiana at
Deutsche Oper in Berlin; La Bohème at the New National Theatre in Tokyo
and at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva; La Rondine in Toulouse; Boris
Godunov, La Favorite, Lohengrin, Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto and a series of
concerts in Marseille; Aida at the Chorégies d'Orange; Maria Stuarda in
Vienna (Theater an der Wien) and at the Opera in Rome; series of concerts with
Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse.
In Liège M° Arrivabeni will conduct Turandot, Nabucco, Otello and a
series of concerts.
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